Karma Vipaka Samhita · by Anonymous
Chapter 79 · A Salt-Maker and His Wife
मूल नक्षत्र चतुर्थ चरण
परस्त्रीरतिसंयोगं यत्कृतं पूर्वजन्मनि ॥तेन पापेन भो देवि शरीरे रोगसंभवः ॥ १५ ॥
What he did in the past birth, love-making with other men's wives: by that sin, O Goddess, illness arises in the body.
Classical view, not medical advice.
अस्य शान्ति प्रवक्ष्यामि शृणु देवि सुशोभने ॥
I will tell the remedy for this. Hear it, O beautiful Goddess. Let him give an eighth of his house wealth to a brahmin.
गायत्रीलक्षजाप्यं च विप्रद्वारा च कारयेत् ॥
Let him have one lakh (100,000) japa (repeating a mantra) of the Gayatri (a sacred Vedic chant) done through brahmins. Homa (fire offering) with a…
सुवर्णप्रतिमां कृत्वा लक्ष्म्याः पञ्चपलेन वै ॥
Let him make a gold image of Lakshmi, of five pala (a unit of weight). Also two very pure bulls of silver, O fair one,